OCEAN PINES – Board members last week voted to establish a system for fining properties in continual violation of the community’s guidelines.
Last Saturday, the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors voted unanimously to establish a system for fining property owners who continue to violation the community’s guidelines in the sections of Ocean Pines that grant the board the authority to do so.
Director Colette Horn, liaison for the Ocean Pines Architectural Review Committee (ARC), said the request was brought forward in an effort to use enforcement tools that could minimize the time between notice of, and compliance with, outstanding violations.
“People who live in Ocean Pines full time are asking that the board use their powers of enforcement, limited as they may be, to compel enforcement in all of the sections,” she said. “I will also add there was an effort last year that we started the process of trying to change the declarations of restrictions in those sections that don’t have fining authority that would allow enforcement of short-term rental restrictions and potentially, in the future, to compel enforcement of the ARC violations and other rule violations in those sections using the power of fining.”
While not every section of the community includes the authority to fine property owners in its declarations of restrictions, officials say the motion would allow the board to penalize owners in sections that do authorize fines.
I can’t wait till Wes Moore and Jake Day build low income government housing in the Pines
HOAs are for suckers
Ocean Pines USED to be a nice place.
Then, somehow, dirtbags, low-lifes, and welfare and “disability'” recipients started renting houses there.
Junk cars parked next to their house for years. Trash blowing around in their yards. Broken fences and yards full of weeds and overgrown grass that looks like they were waiting for the time to harvest wheat. Peeling paint.
Broken trampolines in the back yard AND in the front yard(!). Broken furniture on their front porch. Loud music and ghetto parties late at night (and don’t say nothing….or a fight WILL break out)
I feel sorry for the people who thought they were moving into an upper-scale neighborhood and then got the surprise of their life. And it was not a good surprise.
So now, Ocean Pines thinks some FINES will fix this??
Seriously??
Ocean Pines is another ghettobury!